A Florida Highway Patrol trooper ticketing a speeder on...

A Florida Highway Patrol trooper ticketing a speeder on Interstate 95 was injured Friday and his cruiser totaled when it was sideswiped by a truck.

James R. Richberg, 20, of Coral Springs, who has worked for the highway patrol for less than a year, was taken to Broward General Medical Center, where he was treated for a broken leg and released.

Richberg was leaning against the fender of his unmarked patrol car writing a ticket beside the northbound lanes of I-95 near Sunrise Boulevard when the cab of a tractor-trailer truck swerved off the road and hit the cruiser.